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Stephen C. “Steve” Peters is the founding member of Peters Law Firm in Winter Park, Colorado, one of the premier trial law firms in Northwest Colorado. A 1983 graduate of the Duke University School of Law, he was admitted to practice law in Colorado on October 31, 1983, and has been a practicing litigator in Colorado ever since.

A former Assistant US Attorney for the District of Colorado, Mr. Peters has handled first chair responsibility in numerous state and federal jury trials, arbitrations, and in a variety of government regulatory and injunction proceedings, both as a prosecutor and a defense attorney. Some have been highly publicized. A former instructor and team leader for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Mr. Peters also has extensive motion practice and appellate experience in both civil and criminal litigation settings, and has valuable expertise in complex database management, internal investigations, and grand jury proceedings. From 2007 to 2014, Mr. Peters served on the Criminal Justice Act Standing Committee of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Mr. Peters is a member of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association/White Collar Section, and the Northwest Colorado Bar Association.

Mr. Peters has recently joined the leading Denver trial firm of Reilly Pozner LLP in an of counsel capacity, and maintains a full-time office in downtown Denver to collaborate with other highly experienced trial attorneys and better serve Mr. Peters’ clients on Colorado’s front-range and elsewhere. Mr. Peters is the former Chair of the Craig Hospital Board of Directors and a former member of the Board of Trustees at the National Sports Center for the Disabled. Mr. Peters and his wife Renee are residents of Fraser, Colorado. Born on April 8, 1957, Mr. Peters is a 1979 graduate of Kansas State University and is the son of the late Chester and Doris Peters of Manhattan, Kansas.